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Created on: 19-03-15 18:19

The description of the mountain scenery, and of its effect on Frankenstein's mind, is finely given

Edinburgh Magazine

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The novel is in part an examination of the responsibility of the father to the son

George Levine

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The family is an aspect of the self and the self cannot survive bereft of its family

George Levine

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The trauma of the afterbirth

Ellen Moers

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A critique of the institution of parenthood

Barbara Johnson

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The monster hides in a womblike hovel

Mary Poovey

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The narrative of the monster [...] is of his almost learning, clandestinely, to be human

Gavatri Spivak

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All women are presented as sexless

Anne K Mellor

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Nature pursues Victor with the very electricity he has stolen: lightning, thunder, and rain rage around him

Anne K Mellor

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[the monster] defies all odds, as a parentless being, by learning language

Marilyn Butler

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When it comes to parenting, Frankenstein is himself a monster

Marylin Butler

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The creature is not innately evil, but forced to become so by characters who deny him access to human community

Lawrence Lipking

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Is the creature a natural man or an unnatural monster?

Lawrence Lipking

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[The creature seems an unfallen, innocent creature, who feels love and sympathy as readily as hunger and pain

Lawrence Lipking

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He develops as if nature, not man, had formed him and only rejection by society leaves him deformed

Lawrence Lipking

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The novel is in part an examination of the responsibility of the father to the son

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George Levine

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The family is an aspect of the self and the self cannot survive bereft of its family

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The trauma of the afterbirth

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A critique of the institution of parenthood

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Frankenstein Critic Quotes